LaCritique.org, an online French arts and criticism journal, published a feature about the projects Above Gaza and Infrared (Gaza), that I made in collaboration with Italian photographer Vittoria Mentasti. (The article is in French but auto-translate does a decent enough job.)

French writer, critic, and educator Christian Gatttinoni said of the work, "From a traditional reporting position Daniel Tepper and Vittoria Mentasti put together a powerful documentary fiction that crosses purely factual images and other visions of a new committed humanism that technological innovations diverted from their use make more sensitive."

I'm really stoked to have photographs from Above Gaza, a project made in collaboration with Vittoria Mentasti, featured in Le Monde's M Magazine. The magazine relaunched their now-expanded portfolio section with this issue and published 10 pages of our photos. You can see an online version of the article, in English, along with more photos here.

I'm stoked to be part of the upcoming alumni show at the International Center of Photography school, exhibiting a couple of video installations from a project I've been working on with Vittoria Mentasti - looking at of thermal imaging cameras used by aerial drones.️

RISC is an amazing organization that provides free medical training and first-aid equipment to journalists and photographers who work in conflict zones and war. They have been holding trainings all over the world and I was happy to catch one in Turin over the summer. I took the course in 2013 and still remember how demanding and exciting it was. It was great to see again and this time I didn't get covered in fake blood.

You can read my story about the training and see more photographs, here, on VICE.

I'm really stoked to have this photo from Drone Nation selected to be part of American Photography 32. Vittoria Mentasti and I made this photo inside the MALAT division factory at Israel Aerospace Industries. IAI's unmanned aerial vehicles and their control stations are made and displayed in this large hangar which serves as both an assembly plant and showroom.

Some photographs from the Drone Nation, a collaborative project with Vittoria Mentasti, looking at Israel's UAV industry, were published recently in Newsweek Japan. Their edit and layout is really nice...

I attended a drone conference outside Tel Aviv last week to write about counter-drone technology and how troublesome UAVs have become for Israel, the country that pioneered the use of modern drones in combat.

I went to Dimona, in southern Israel, to visit the Black Hebrew Israelites during their New World Passover celebration. The community known as the Black Hebrews came from the United States and settled first in Africa before moving to Israel in 1970.

I covered Jerusalem Day for VICE News. The annual holiday is celebrated by nationalist-Israelis and celebrates the reunification of the city under Israeli control after the Six-Day War in 1967. Tensions run high as Palestinian demonstrate against Jewish revelers marching through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.

I went to the screening of "Under the Helmet" an Israeli documentary film that follows a group of young Israeli draftees as they begin training to become combat paratroopers. I wrote a short review and spoke with some audience members after the screening to hear what they thought of the film.

Photographer Vittoria Mentasti and I went to the Unmanned Vehicle Israel Defense conference outside of Tel Aviv. Drones are big business in Israel and the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry here has been the leading worldwide exporter of drone systems since the mid-1980's.

At the conference, Israeli companies spoke about testing out new drone systems during the war in Gaza and unrest in Jerusalem this past summer.

I worked with journalist, Ben Hattem, on a of couple of articles covering Jerusalem Day, an annual Israeli holiday that commemorates the reunification of the city following the Six Day War in 1967. Many Palestinians consider the festivities to be an aggressive expression of Israeli nationalism and the day is marked by protests and clashes around Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem.

I met Hassan Saad a few weeks ago in Gaza City. He keeps a bunch of used car batteries in his garage that he has hooked up to a series of LED lights that run all over his neighborhood and into 60 of his neighbors' homes. Hassan undertook this project as an act of charity, dedicated to the soul of his father who had recently passed away.

Some of my photos from Ramallah were published on Vice for their Paradise Series. Unlike other posts in the series that poke fun at whatever city is featured, I wanted to show Ramallah as a strange and wonderful place. They altered my short introduction, here's what I originally wrote:

"I moved to Ramallah last year to work as a newspaper photographer for a newspaper. Coming from Brooklyn, I found the city to be equal parts friendly and odd. In my memories, smells of Arabic coffee and sweet shisha smoke wafting out of cafes mix with the stink of burning garbage and the sting of teargas from clashes at the nearby Qalandiya checkpoint.

Ramallah sits in the middle of an ongoing conflict that is so entwined with daily life that sometimes, when I was swept up in the everyday bustle, I didn’t even notice it."

An article for Vice about ultra-Orthodox Jews - Haredim - holding an anti-draft rally in Jerusalem. The event was attended by hundreds of thousands and effectively shut down parts of the city for most of the day. You can read the story and see some of my photos here.

The only zoo in the West Bank is in the city of Qalqilya. In addition to the living animals is a museum of taxidermy animals, most of whom died during the Second Intifada. The zoo’s director, a self-taught taxidermist, preserved the animals in an unintentionally sad and strange exhibit.

I’m happy to have my Goldwater project featured on the Prison Photography. Writer and photo editor Pete Brook, created the blog in order to, “To bring to attention things previously unsaid,” and, “To joust in the melee of contested meanings in surveillance, fine-art, documentary, amateur, institution, and virtual photographies of prisons and other sites of incarceration.”

I’ll be participating in the RISC training program at the end of the month. RISC, Reporters Instructed In Saving Colleagues, is an intensive battlefield medial-response course that is provided free of charge to freelance journalists who work in conflict zones. I’m humbled to be participating in the program along side experienced photojournalists and reporters and to have the opportunity to show my work at the Bronx Documentary Center.